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Is there going to be a third book?

I Am Forever, Book Two in the series was released in 2014. I planned the adventure as a three-book series and I’m working on the third book now. Zee will come face-to-face with a terrifying threat to both humanity and the vampire race. She will never have been tested like this before.

I was living in Taiwan for a few months and at night, I could hear cockroaches scurrying around my room. But when I turned the lights on, they’d be gone. Cursed Houdini bugs!

Needless to say, I couldn’t sleep, afraid they’d rent out my mouth for a party. So I would lie there, thinking all sorts of crazy things, asking myself all sorts of questions: “What would happen if I suddenly disappeared?” “What if I fell into a hole? What if that hole was filled with blood?” Man, that would suck. That image, of a young woman climbing out of a well, soaked in blood, was what started it all.

Thank goodness for the cockroaches, I guess?

A cockroach and I having a writer meeting.

How long did it take you to write the book?

About five months. Then I stared at it for a year because I had no clue what to do with it. After I won the staring contest, I self-published it.

When did you first start writing?

I was in Grade 4 when I wrote my first novel, called Sweet Dreams (basically what I was NOT having in Taiwan). It featured a love, uh, rhombus (three girls and one lucky guy) and it was about alien clones.

My first manuscript. An unintended comedy.

Where do you get your ideas?

I have always had an over-active imagination. I created fantasy worlds for my friends at recess. I had nightmares and sleepwalked every night until I was 12. (Lucky parents.) Writing became a way of exorcising the scary thoughts from my brain.

When I was a little girl, I wanted to grow up to be author Stephen King.

Where would you like to be five years from now?

I’m still waiting for this to happen, though if I suddenly woke up as a 64-year-old Caucasian man, that might actually make for an interesting science-fiction novel.

What is your favourite book?

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. It’s incredible. And it made me cry my face off. Then again, I cried when King Kong died so maybe that shouldn’t be my benchmark.

Is Wynne Channing a pen name?

Yes, I wanted to separate my journalism work from my fiction work…not that anyone would confuse a vampire apocalypse for real news. Wynne Channing is a mix of my middle name and the street where I grew up.

Why would a serious journalist who has interviewed a sitting president and covered Canada’s first terrorism trial, write teen vampire fiction?